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Mexico Sets 2025–2030 Child-Protection Plan to Confront Recruitment of Minors

Advocates press for a distinct offense for forced recruitment to enable prosecutions.

Overview

  • PRONAPINNA makes preventing the recruitment of children by criminal groups and reducing homicides among minors a top federal priority for the next four years.
  • The program centers victim recognition, comprehensive care, social reintegration, and legal measures that explicitly prohibit and punish the practice.
  • For the first time, the strategy formally brings in the Army, Navy, and the Digital Transformation Agency to a coordinated response.
  • The plan outlines four objectives, 23 strategies, 169 lines of action, eight indicators, and 72 responsible bodies, with poverty identified as a major driver affecting about 38.7% of children.
  • A previous federal diagnosis mapped 18 high-risk states and detailed the roles minors are used for, while civil-society groups and a Michoacán lawmaker urge specific criminalization after many initiatives stalled.